Name: William James Martin dies after a life of building and family connections, 2007
Start: 2007-03-23
End: 2007-03-23
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2007-03-23
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathfamilycommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

William James (Jim) Martin, 72, died on March 23, 2007. The notice remembered him as a builder, dependable friend, and member of a family with Beaver Island connections, and reported an April 21 memorial mass in Palatine, Illinois.

Evidence limits

The notice does not provide a civil death record or a complete family history.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Gillespie and Norm Long, “James "Swifty" Martin RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, March 29–April 13, 2007.
The initial notice reported the death after a stroke; a later participant supplied a reproduced obituary identifying William James Martin, age 72, his March 23 death, family relationships, and an April 21 Palatine memorial mass. The Beacon remains the primary local archival source used for the record.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2007, “James Martin.”
Reports that William James Martin, 72, died March 23, identifies his siblings, and notes his April 21 memorial mass in Palatine, Illinois. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2007, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the death notice.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “William James Martin dies after a life of building and family connections, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-james-martin-death-2007/, accessed [date], citing Gillespie and Norm Long, “James "Swifty" Martin RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, March 29–April 13, 2007. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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